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9781626256460

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5 Mo

In this book Jean Klein once again offers us one of the clearest and most direct expositions of Advaita in our times.

“The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace. There may be a moment in life when our compensatory activities, the accumulation of money, learning and objects, leaves us feeling deeply apathetic. This can motivate us towards the search for our real nature beyond appearances. We may find ourselves asking, 'Why am I here? What is life? Who am I?' Sooner or later any intelligent person asks these questions.

“What you are looking for is what you already are, not what you will become. What you already are is the answer and the source of the question. In this lies its power of transformation. It is a present actual fact. Looking to become something is completely conceptual, merely an idea. The seeker will discover that he is what he seeks and that what he seeks is the source of the inquiry.”

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Publié par

New Harbinger Publications

Date de parution

01 janvier 0001

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781626256460

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

5 Mo

Body Mind

OTHER WORKS BY JEAN KLEIN

Be Who You Are Who Am I? Beyond Knowledge Living Truth Open to the Unknown Transmission of the Flame The Ease Of Being

Translations also available in French, Spanish, Italian, German and Chinese

I AM

Jean Klein

compiled and edited by Emma Edwards

nondualit y pr ess

Jean Klein Foundation PO Box 22045 Santa Barbara, CA 93120 United States

jkftmp@aol.com http://www.jean klein.org

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without express written permission from the publisher.

ISBN 9780955176272

NonDuality Press Salisbury SP2 8JP United Kingdom www.nondualitybooks.com

Table of Contents

Preface.................................................... vi For the Reader........................................ vii

Chapter 1................................................ 1 Chapter 2................................................ 7 Chapter 3................................................ 13 Chapter 4................................................ 19 Chapter 5................................................ 27 Chapter 6................................................ 41 Chapter 7................................................ 49 Chapter 8................................................ 57 Chapter 9................................................ 67 Chapter 10 .............................................. 73 Chapter 11 .............................................. 85 Chapter 12 .............................................. 91 Chapter 13 .............................................. 97 Chapter 14 .............................................. 105 Chapter 15 .............................................. 117 Chapter 16 .............................................. 125 Chapter 17 .............................................. 131 Chapter 18 .............................................. 139 Chapter 19 .............................................. 145

PREFACE

Some of you who read this book may have a kind of dèjâvu in places. This is because an earlier workNeither This Nor That I Am(Watkins 1981) has been completely revised and woven into these pages. I felt the earlier work needed rewriting; this bookI Amis a clearer pointer to truth.

J.K

FOR THE READER

I am a mother. I am a son. I am a doctor. I am a lawyer. I’m musical. I’m tall. I’m short. I’m American. I am French. I am Jewish. I am Christian. I am black. I’m gay. I am celibate. I’m depressed. I’m happy. I’m married. I am this. I am that. We know ourselves only in relation to something. We only know a qualiﬁed “I.” When we say “I am” the mind demands “What am I? I am what?” This book is about the “I am” prior to all qualiﬁcation, what we are before the intrusion of the mind. How can we know what cannot be qualiﬁed? It calls for a new kind of knowing, not a knowledge which comes from the accumulation of facts and experience. We may have absorbed every book published and experienced every adventure and it would not bring us one breath nearer to knowing “I am.” So this new knowing begins by giving up looking for it in experiences and secondhand information. Giving up does not mean we become passive; on the contrary, in letting go of our mechani cal learned responses we are open to our full potential, our creativity, a dynamic new realm. The natural state of the relaxed brain is multidimensional attention. It does not need viewpoints, data, opinions, memory to be alert. When all these directions cease, an organic, nondirected wakefulness remains. This is the threshold of “I am.”

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This book is therefore about that which cannot be repre sented, objectiﬁed. It is about our real nature, truth, a truth that has nothing to do with the accumulation of facts. It is causeless, autonomous and only in this sense real. It needs no agent to be known and is its own proof. It is not having knowledge but immediate knowledge, knowing as being, and as such is not objectiﬁable. It is closer to us than all thought or feeling. It is our fundamental ground. Since the “I am” is not an abstract, a concept or idea, the teaching of this truth is not a transmission of conceptual knowledge. The understanding of these dialogues does not occur in the mind. Of course the words, acting on the verbal level, bring the mind to greater clarity so that it has a clear geometrical representation of what is beyond it and also real izes the boundaries of its comprehension. But the fullness and real signiﬁcance of these words lies in the fact that they do not arise from thinking but from the silence behind thought, the “I am.” The answers appear in this silence, the openness that is present in the absence of a personal entity, and they are permeated with “the perfume” of their source. In this lies their transformative power: they arise out of and point to our real nature, our autonomy, at every moment. They are thus a constant challenge, a challenge to belief, education and com mon sense. They free us from the reﬂex to take ourselves for a somebody, a thinker, a seeker, a doer, a sufferer. If these sayings are not meant to be comprehended in the usual sense of the word, by the mind; if we are not to bring our past knowledge and experience to bear on the interpreta tion, how should we read this book? As we read poetry. When reading poetry we don’t look for agreement or disagreement, the critical mind is suspended in order to let the impact of the poem make itself felt. When we read poetry, we are poets. We remain passively alert, letting the words be active, listening to how they echo on every level,

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how they sound, how they move in us, how we are moved by them. We wait attentively, without conclusion, for the poem to ﬁnd us. This alert openness to all the resonances of the psy chosomatic structure is vital to the truthseeker. Like the poet, the truthseeker lets go of his personality so that he is open to thoughts, feelings and reactions. Like the poet, the truth seeker welcomes these as gifts, as pointers in the exploration. Only in this openness can the silence in the words come home to us, for openness is the “I am,” our real nature. The words are merely a catalyst to the real formulation which takes place in the reader.

E.E.

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